Stobage battery



STORAGE BATTERY N. B, LAING ET AL Filed Apr.

Api'. 3, 1923.

Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

UNITED y' STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

NORMAN B. LAING, OF DETROIT, .AND FRED C. RINDFLISH, OF HIGHLAND PARK,

' MICHIGAN.

STORAGE BATTERY.

Application led April 10, 1922. Serial No. 550,958.

To all fui/tom t concern Be it known that we, (a) NORMAN B. Laino and FRED C. RINDFLISH, (a) a subject ot the King ot England and (b) a citizen ot the United States of America, re-

siding at (a) Detroit, county of lVayne, and

State of Michigan, and (b) Highland Park,

county ot Wayne, and State ot Michigan,

' have invented certain new and useful Im- O proveniente in Storage Batteries,of whichthe following is a speciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Portable storage batteries as now constructed cannot be taken apart, examined,

repaired and again assembled without using special lead-burning equipment and this has coniined the repair of batteries to service stations or plants equipped for such purposes; it being practically impossible for the user of such battery to make any repairs.

Our invention aims to provide a portable storage battery in which plates are con nected together and the cells interconnected by novel connectors, which are outside of the battery casing and arelnotburned or soldered together but so constructed that the user oi' the battery may dissemble it, replace injured plates or such other parts as may 80 need replacing with new ones, and assemble the parts again, this being accomplished with ordinary tools, thus placing the battery in that category of home repaired automobile accessories.

Our invention further aims to provide a portable storage battery having plate-risers joined electrically by a detachable acid resisting connector of novel design which reduces resistance to a minimumA Our construction^ possesses other advantages which will appear as the nature of theinvention is better understood and reiference will now be had to the drawing, wherein- Figure i is a plan of a portable storage battery inaccordance with our invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional Aview of, the battery, showing howv the lid and plate risers are articulated so as to be bodily removable relative to the battery casing after the marginal edges of the seal are broken, the lid and plates lbeing shown partially elevated relative tothe casing;

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross sectional View of a portion of the battery;

lFig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional -view of a portion ot the battery;

Fig. 5 is an end view of a connector;

Fig. 6 is an elevation of a plate riser, and y Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a clannging bolt.

In the' drawing, the reference numeral l denotes an outer casing. and fitted within said casing is an inner casing 2 for a plurality of parallel plates which together with other elements provide a storage battery, and since our invention resides inthe construction of the upper portion of the battery, we consider it unnecessary to enter into a description to the contents of the inner casing` 2.

The plates 3 have the upper edges thereot provided with risers 4 which are comparatively flat and have the upper ends thereof slotted, as at 5, the slots being open and providing opposed parallel walls. The risers 4, adjacent said plates, have the edges thereof provided with shoulders or positioning supports 6 for a lid 7 fitted within the inner casing' 2 and provided with slots 8 through which the risers 4 extend. The lid .7 has the usual apertured plug 9 and filling connection l0 permitting of water being placed in the battery and gas escaping theretrom.

The lid 7 is set in from the upper edges ot the inner casing 2 and on said lid is a seal ll of any acid resisting material that will seal the lid 7 relative to the inner casing, and the plate risers 4 relative to the lid 7. This is best brought out in Fig. 2 where it will be observed that the seal il has been cut or otherwise broken` at its marginal edges, to liberate the lid and plates, and since the seal surrounds the plate risers l and the lid is on the snpports 6, the entire structure can be bodily lifted from the battery casing. it is ohl vious that easy access can then be had te the plates and the interior of the casing. We attach considerable importance to the fact that the plate risers are positively anchored by the positioning supports G and the sealing material 1l and when this sealing material adheres to the casing 2 the battery is positively closed, yet in such a nature that an unskilled person may open the battery without the assistance oi' any eX- pensive equipment.

The risers 4 of the plates 3 are necessarily disposedy in parallelism and mounted on the upper ends of said risers are connectors 12 and 13, said connectors being` similar except that the connectors 13 have terminals 14. Each connector is in the form of an oblong member provided with a multiplicity of parallel slots 15 forming arms 16 and it is into the slots 15 that the risers f1 extend to have an intimate tace to face contact with the faces oit the arms 1G, and since the arms of each connector are integral with a backbone, like the tines ot a comb, it is obvious that there is a positive connection between the arms 16 in contradistinction to washers interposed between the risers and connected by a tie rod or bolt.

The connectors 12 and 13 are slotted, as

I at 17 and these slots are adapted to register or longitudinally aline with the slots 5 of the risers 1 so thatbolts 18 may extend through said slots. As shown in Fig. 7 the bolt is oblong in cross section and by engaging opposed walls of the slots 5 and 17 the bolts are prevented from rotating. At one end ot' each bolt is a comparatively flat head 19 and at the opposite end or" the bolt is a threaded portion 20 von which may be screwed a nut 21. Vhen the nut 21 is tightened the arms 16 and the risers 4 will be clamped against one another and joined electrically, the solid backbone or through portion of the connector acting as a header Jfor the current, thus cutting the resistance of this type of bolted connector to a much lower value than would be obtained. by using a bolt provided with washers or detached spacers.

ry reference to Figs. 1 and 3 it will be noted that the plates 3 are in reverse order providing a set of risers at each side of the battery. It is possible to dispose the connectors horizontally as at 12, or to dispose them vertically as at 1.3. The fiat heads 19 of the bolts 18 afford a suiiicient gap between the connectors 12Iand 13 and with the `nuts 2l. at the ends ot the battery said nuts can bc tightened to insure a thorough and intimate relation between the connectors and the plate risers.

From the foregoing it will be observed that the connectors can be easily and quickly removed, the seal 11 broken, the lid 7 lifted `from the risers. and the plates or any other elements within 'the battery removed, repaired and replaced.

It is thought that the utility of our in-s vention will be apparent without further description. and while in the drawing there is illust ated a preferred embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood, that the structural elements are susceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What we claim iszl. As a new article of manufacture, a connector for battery plate risers, said connector having multiplicity of arms afording `slots to receive plate risers and said arms having alining slots to receive means by which said arms and plate risers may be intimately clamped in engagement with the plate risers.

2. In af battery, plates having risers, connectors fitted on said plate risers, and means longitudinally of said connectors clamping said connectors on said plate risers, said means including non-rotatable bolts extending through said plate. risers with nuts at the outer ends of said bolts.

3. In a battery construction, plates having risers, a connector having a multiplicity of arms affording slots to receive the plate risers, and means engaging the endmost connector arms producing a pressure longitudinally of said connector maintaining said plate risers and connector arms in intimate contacting relation.

4'. In a storage battery, an inner casing, plates in said inner casing, flat blade like risers integral with said plates, lid supports on said risers, a lid on said supports and through which lid extend said risers, and connectors clamped on said risers.

5. A 'battery construction as called for in claim 4, wherein each connector is in the form of a member having a multiplicity of slots to receive the risers of said plates.

6. A battery construction as called for in claim 4, and a seal on said lid about the risers of said plates. l

7. A storage battery comprising a casing, a lid, plates in said casing, said plates having risers extending through such lid, electrical connectors on the upperends of said plate risers, and a seal connecting said lid, casing and plate risers so that said lid and plates may be united and bodily removable from said casing when said seal is broken at said casing. Y v

8. Al storage battery as inclaim 7, and meanscarried by said platerisers to coopcrate with the seal in supporting said lid..

9. In a storage battery, a casing, plates therein provided with risers, connectors on the risers of said plates, and a sealed closure tol-.said Casing engaging said plate risers so that said closure and p ates may be bodily removed from said casing when said sealed closure is broken at said casing. y

In testimony whereof weaffix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

NORMAN B. LAING. y FRED C. RINDFLISH. lditnesses CHARLES W. lSfranrufrcrin,

KARL BTLER. 

